Word: sault
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...royal family has shown us that it has become an irrelevant and valueless commodity. Britain should take what's left of the royals' obscene fortune and distribute it to the shelters and soup kitchens supported by Diana. She then will definitely not have died in vain. NEIL CARTER Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...
...Sault Ste. Marie Chippewas, a Michigan tribe rich from casino revenues, know something about spreading their bets around the table. After G.O.P. Governor John Engler trumped their plans to build a casino in downtown Detroit, they gave $100,000 to the national Democratic Party in early '96. That helped win the attention of then deputy White House chief of staff Harold Ickes, whom they pressed to get the Interior Department to back their casino proposal. Actually, the tribe gave the President's party almost four times that much. But to avoid further angering Engler, who was already furious about their...
...roads, creating treacherous driving conditions. Post offices, retail stores and schools have been forced to close their doors. Alaska, by contrast, is unseasonably warm today, with wind chills in Barrow a mere 10 below. The system will move east into lower Michigan and Ohio by this evening. Residents in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the nation's second-snowiest city, are bracing for at least another foot of snow today. Despite the arctic conditions, some hardy Minnesota residents were undeterred: At the John Beargrease Sled Dog marathon in Grand Marais, Minnesota, racers were mushing onward, defying wind chills of 60 below...
...exactly what we need. America has changed in the past 60 years; in terms of medical progress there has been great success. Today the proper time to retire and the age at which Social Security benefits should become available is not 65 but 80. LOUIS R. WARD Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan...
...passing a law that banned English on outdoor commercial signs in Quebec. English speakers across the country expressed outrage, and some later engaged in highly publicized Quebec-flag stomping. About 60 municipalities have since passed symbolic ordinances declaring English their sole official tongue. Said - Mayor Joe Fratesi of Sault Sainte Marie, in explanation of his city's English- only law: "I'm against the idea of force-feeding all of Canada on two languages...